Mob Rules (album)

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Mob Rules
Black Sabbath studio album

Publication
(s)

4th November 1981

Label (s) Warner Bros. Records (US)

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Heavy metal

Title (number)

9

running time

40 min. 31 sec.

occupation

production

Martin Birch

Studio (s)

Record Plant, Los Angeles

chronology
Heaven and Hell
(1980) 		Mob Rules Born Again
(1983)

Mob Rules is the tenth studio album by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath . It is the second album with singer Ronnie James Dio . It was recorded in the Record Plant Studios under the direction of Martin Birch .

background

Musically, the album differs from its predecessor Heaven and Hell in that it no longer sounds so bombastic and majestic, but rather has a more aggressive sound. Even so, the album sold almost as often as Heaven and Hell : it reached # 12 in the UK and # 29 in the US.

The cover artwork , drawn by Greg Hildebrant , shows several hooded, poor-looking figures in front of a stone wall on which the band and album names are drawn in red. There is a rumor that the words "Kill Ozzy " were drawn in the stone tile joints on the floor of the people . Whether this is intended, however, is questionable, especially since Greg Hildebrant denies it himself.

Some CD releases have a different back cover, a different track list appears and the design differs slightly from the original.

Track list

All songs were written by Butler, Iommi, Dio and Appice.

  1. Turn up the Night - 3:42
  2. Voodoo - 4:32
  3. The Sign of the Southern Cross - 7:45 am
  4. E5150 - 2:54
  5. The Mob Rules - 3:15
  6. Country Girl - 4:02
  7. Slipping Away - 3:46
  8. Falling Off the Edge of the World - 5:03
  9. Over and Over - 5:28

Song info

E5150 is a code word for "Evil". If you change the Arabic numerals to Roman numerals , you get 5 = V, 1 = I and 50 = L. The songs Mob Rules and E5150 are also on the soundtrack to the film Heavy Metal . The band The Sign of the Southern Cross named themselves after the song of the same name on the album.

Single releases

  • The title track was decoupled and was placed at # 46 in the UK charts.
  • In America, Voodoo and Turn up the Night were released as singles. Both placed on the Billboard mainstream rock charts.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://everyhit.com/
  2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mob-rules-mw0000194116/awards
  3. ↑ OZZY OSBOURNE ON MOB RULES ( Memento from December 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Black Sabbath ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mob-rules-mw0000194116/awards
Black Sabbath
Bill Ward  • Ronnie James Dio  • Vinny Appice  • Geoff Nicholls • Tony Martin  • Ian Gillan  • Glenn Hughes  • Ray Gillen  • Cozy Powell  • Neil Murray  • Bev Bevan  • Jo Burt • Terry Chimes  • Bob Daisley  • Bobby Rondinelli  • Eric Singer  • Dave Pointed • Dave Walker


Studio albums

Black Sabbath (1970) • Paranoid (1970) • Master of Reality (1971) • Volume 4 (1972) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabotage (1975) • Technical Ecstasy (1976) • Never Say Die! (1978) • Heaven and Hell (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Born Again (1983) • Seventh Star (1986) • The Eternal Idol (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Tyr (1990) • Dehumanizer (1992 ) • Cross Purposes (1994) • Forbidden (1995) • 13 (2013)

Live albums

Live at Last (1980) • Live Evil (1982) • Cross Purposes Live (1995) • Reunion (1998) • Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon (2007)

Compilation albums

We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll (1976) • The Best of Black Sabbath (2000) • Greatest Hits 1970–1978 (2007) • Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (2007) •

Singles

Black Sabbath (1970) • Evil Woman (1970) • NIB • Paranoid (1970) • The Wizard (1970) • Iron Man (1971) • War Pigs (1971) • Fairies Wear Boots (1971) • Sweat Leaf (1971) • Children of the Grave (1971) • After Forever (1972) • Snowblind (1972) • Tomorrow's Dream (1972) • Supernaut (1973) • Changes (1973) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabbra Cadabra (1974) • Am I Going Insane (1975) • Hole in the Sky (1975) • Symptom of the Universe (1975) • Rock'Roll Doctor (1976) • Never Say Die (1978) • Hard Road (1978) • Dirty Woman (1979) • Neon Knights (1980) • The Young (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Turn Up the Night (1982) • Voodoo (1982) • Trashed (1983) • No Stranger to Love (1986) • The Shining (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Devil and Daughter (1989) • Feels Good to Me (1990) • TV Crimes (1992) • The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1994) • Psycho Man (1998) • Selling My Soul (1999) • The Devil Cried (2007) • God is Dead? (2013) • End of the Beginning (2013) • The Loner (2013)